Putin sends ?Chechen? special operation forces to SyriaFri Dec 09, 2016 05:26 | The SakerThis SITREP was written for the Unz Review: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/putin-sends... Very interesting news today: according to the journal Izvestia, Russia will be sending operators from the so-called “Chechen” special forces battalions

We Must Support the Syrian State

In their New Year statements, The Syrian Communist Pary and the Syrian Communist Youth Union, have called on all progressives, around the world, to stand stedfastly behind the Syrian national resistance against the Anglo-Zionist imperial forces, who now do all they can to destroy the Syrian nation and leave it prostrate before Israeli and US firepower.

The Syian Communist Youth state: "Today the Syrian people and youth are facing terrorist operations, massacres and incitement on the various components of the Syrian people, including civilians, soldiers, academics and active youth. These operations are carried out by terrorist groups and extremist reactionary forces, especially the obscurantist Muslim Brotherhood, who are supported by Zionist media campaigns and armed and funded by the reactionary Arab Gulf régimes, in collaboration with NATO."

For two years now, the Syrian people have shed their blood and tears to resist the genocidal greed of the Anglo-Zionist empire, and it's Salafist mercenary gangs. The once beautiful face of Syria is now scarred with unspeakable horrors. Children have been forced to hack the heads off defenseless prisoners in the streets, by crazed sectarian gangs, who make the Shankill Butchers seem quite sane. And all the while, the Western Left has, for the most part, either sat on the fense or actually supported the sectarian gangs. It is a shameful fact, that over the last ten years or so, certain well known Leftist parties have been building ties with the Muslim Brotherhood. We don't need to name them. They know who they are. We will, however, repeat the wise words of Tony Cliff, who described the Muslim Brotherhood as a Fascist organisation under the control of MI6. This unclean collaboration actually saw these groups supporting racist lynch mobs in Libya, and left them unable to speak out against the bombing of Bani Walid last October, by the very same racist gang who dubbed themselves "The Brigade for the Purging of Black Skins," as they ethnically cleansed 30,000 Black people from Tawarga.

There, are, however, honest and well meaning people, on the Left, who say nothing, even as Syria burns. Their attitude is that ALL states should be opposed, and if one state wants to destroy another, then we should do nothing to stop their mutual destruction. This is a very mistaken attitude. The destruction of Libya did not weaken the US, British or French states. It has made them stronger, bolder, and more savagely greedy. With Al Gaddafi out of the way, they have now launched a full scale Scramble for Africa. Only this week, French imperialists have begun bombing Mali, and their British henchmen are preparing to supply military aircraft and ground forces for this colonial adventure. Yes, as Communists, we all look forward to the withering away of the state. But, this cannot happen while the forces of imperialism are on a genocidal rampage. All that stands between the Syrian people today and sectarian genocide, on an unimaginable scale, is their state - no matter how flawed it may be, and how far it remains from our Communist ideals. We would quote the unforgettable words of Leon Trotsky (though, it seems, they are quite forgettable to many who use his name): "The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism."

In his address to the Syrian people, on January 6th, 2013, President Bashar al-Assad asked some interesting questions - questions the Western Left would do well to ask itself: "They call it a revolution, but in fact it has nothing to do with revolutions. A revolution needs thinkers. A revolution is built on thought. Where are their thinkers? A revolution needs leaders. Who is its leader? Revolutions are built on science and thought not on ignorance, on pushing the country ahead not taking it centuries back, on spreading light not cutting power lines. A revolution is usually done by the people not by importing foreigners to rebel against the people."

Where are the thinkers in the Western Left today? Where are those who dare to go against the herd, once it has been stampeded by the imperialist media? Where is the will among the leaders of the Western Left to challenge ignorance - rather than leading from behind the latest opinion poll? Where are the efforts being made to build revolutionary structures, that the people can join - rather than corralling them into futile pleading to the bourgeois governments?

The Western Left failed terribly in Libya. The chaos and gang rule that is now the reality for most Libyans is partly the doing of the Western Left, who cheerled racist lynch mobs and applauded the destruction of a secular, socialist, state. The Western Left continues to fail in Syria. It continues to either openly support those who make children dig their own graves, or it sits on the fense. It's well past time that the ordinary members of these Leftist organisations started to ask questions of their leaders, and demand to know why such a catastrophic collusion with imperialism is now their policy.

We wish, also, to draw the attention of our comrades to a particular issue, that is likely to become more chronic as time goes on. This issue pertains to Ireland. Last December, a young Irish citizen was killed in Syria, fighting as a mercenary for one of the sectarian gangs. Several other individuals holding Irish passports, including the self confessed CIA agent, Mahdi al-Harati, have been boasting to the media about their terrorist exploits in both Libya and Syria. It is clear that a sophisticated network for the recruiting, funding and export of terrorist mercenaries from Ireland is now in place. While Irish Republicans are jailed for attending protests, the self confessed Zionist minister for "justice" turns a blind eye to this expanding network - as long as these terrorists are doing Israel's dirty work.

We extend our sympathy to the families of more than eighty students, murdered as they sat their university exams in Aleppo. We extend our sympathy to the scores of young people seriously injured, many maimed and disfigured for life. This was an act of utter desperation on the part of the sectarian gangs. They have been rejected by the ordinary people of Aleppo, and by the people of Syria, as a whole. Now all they can do is punish the Syrian people for this rejection, through indiscriminate, no warning, attacks. It is well past time that NATO and its Gulf puppets stopped supplying money and sophisticated weapons to mindless thugs, who have no prospect of cowering the Syrian people into submission.

Páirtí Cummanch na Poblachta salutes the resistance of the Syrian people. We salute the valiant determination of the Syrian Arab Army. We salute those states who have come to Syria's aid, including Russia, China and Iran. We salute our comrades in the Syrian Communist Party and the Syrian Communist Youth Union.

Today, you hold the front line in the struggle against imperialism. Your fight is not only for your Syrian homeland, but for the future of all humanity.

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Most people would be horrified at the news of 82 students being blown to bits, as they sat their exams. Not British foreign secretary, William Hague. He wants the EU arms embargo on the Shankill Butcher style sectarian gangs in Syria to be loosened. It seems this British imperialist rat wants even more blood to be shed in Syria.

Franklin Lamb writes on how the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation are hand in glove with Imperialism. Full text at link.

Claiming solidarity with the Syrian people, on 11/12/2011 the Arab League
suspended the membership of Syria (Lebanon and Yemen voted no and Iraq
abstained) and cancelled its monitoring mission in Syria on 1/28/12. The
Organization of Islamic Cooperation suspended Syria's membership on
5/15/12 at a summit of Muslim leaders in Mecca. Saudi Arabia, the summit's
host, has led all Arab League and OIC calls for the Syrian rebel opposition
to be armed, which Foreign Minister Saud al-Fasial described in February
and since as "an excellent idea."

By their actions, the OIC and the Arab League are themselves sanctioning
the Syrian people in brutal forms and doing nothing to object to the immoral
and illegal aspects of the American sanctions. Both organizations stand
accused of abandoning their charters in order to maintain profitable relations
with NATO countries as they funnel large sums of money and weapons
to various militias inside Syria. It is their “agents,” the jihadist groups, who
have turned on the Syrian civilian population increasingly resorting to theft,
kidnapping for ransom, rape, sale of children and killing hundreds according
to UN agencies.

In one poignant interview near Omayyad Square the other day, a solemn, long
bearded Sunni Sheik told this observer that the American sanctions are also
directly targeting Islam because the sanctions constitute an attack on Islamic
values. When pressed for specifics, he reluctantly replied,
“Because your countries sanctions are impoverishing our people and forcing
our Muslim women into prostitution. These sanctions are also flooding the
streets with Muslim beggars, both adults and children. I am sure you have
seen them, here in Damascus, across Syria and in bordering countries. But
the claimed protectors of our holy sites are silent and shed only insincere
tears in public. But if they resisted these sanctions they could defeat them.
What is required in a 1970’s type Arab boycott of American and western
companies until these anti-Muslim sanctions are lifted.”

The so called Arab League is really the Gulf Monarchies. We saw that when NATO invaded Libya. The Arab League called for a No Fly Zone over Libya. As a kind of sick joke, they had actually called for a NFZ over both Libya and Gaza. However, they did not object when NATO chose to pretend that the call for a NFZ over Gaza had never happened. Nor did the compliant Western media report this call.

However, whats really interesting here is that the Arab League had 22 states at the time. Its constitution demands that a majority back any such measure. However, the Gulf states took it on themselves to issue a call for a NFZ and to suspend Libya's membership. The majority of members - including Syria - did not have the courage to object. Legally, this call had no validity - however, that did not stop NATO using it as a justification for their genocidal attack on the Libyan people.